goddog said:
ah the war of ownership, see here is where it gets murky because copyright law says i can have copies, to keep a backup, and even use that back up if I want as the primary copy even if its in a difrent format as long as i dont reditriute it. they try and cricumvent this by encoding it, and the only way we can make copies (which we have a right to do) now is by breaking an a corprate law about reverse engineering. catch 22. I am against pircay too, I buy all my movies, regardless of format. edit more no the way we make copies, there was a loop hole in dvd, if you got it from the player to the tv, you could make a legal copy without breaking any laws. however with the advent of blueray, special technology was developed to keep this from happening now you must reverse engineer it to get the copy which is illegal. they went so far as to convince MS to happer fx card output to make sure that there was no way someone could get a copy by ripping straight video...... they failed but they crippled performance of an OS |
Yeah, some studios have loopholes to prevent you from even making a copy without expressed written authorization (this is mostly sports leagues and infamously the NFL, oh and PBS requires this. PBS even requires authorization for you to show any of their productions to a group of people, i.e. students, and often times there is a $ contribution to do so). Those are relatively extreme examples however. The whole problem with how they are fighting piracy is they are just now tackling the asian piracy market with their encoding method in blurays. Sad thing is this issue of pirated movies on hard copy(dvd) is mostly history as DD is the preferred method of pirated films and such.
Isn't this entire subject tiring. This whole format war goes way deeper than 95% of individuals understand, or even want to understand. I again, see both sides of the argument but neither one seems more clear.